Obit: Clayton C. Taylor, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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>From the January 7, 1949 Winnfield News-American

Clayton C. Taylor, Deputy Sheriff Dies on Duty Saturday

Was On Duty With Two Other Officers When Death Came


Funeral services were held here at 10 a.m. Monday for Clayton Charles
Taylor, 56, deputy Winn Parish sheriff who died about 9 o'clock last
Saturday night a few moments after collapsing with a heart attack while on
a sheriff's raid in the L & A Negro Quarters.   Rites were conducted by
the Rev. H. H. McBride, pastor, in the First Baptist Church, assisted by
the Reverends Fred S. Flurry, First Methodist Church, Alwin Stokes, First
Presbyterian Church, and Calvin M. Robinson, Winn Parish sheriff and
pastor of the Downtown Assembly of God Church.

Interment was in the Gansville Cemetery under the direction of the Hixon
Brothers Funeral Home.

Deputy Taylor collapsed in an alley just as he and Sheriff Robinson and
Deputy Sheriff Lionell Boone were about to close in on a bootlegging raid,
according to Deputy Boone.  Efforts by his companions to revive him were
fruitless, and although he lived for several minutes following his
collapse, he was pronounced dead by Dr. roy V. Martin when the latter
arrived.

Deputy Taylor had been in the sheriff's employ since October 4.  Prior to
joining the sheriff's department he was associated with the Sears, Roebuck
and Co. store in Alexandria, and he is remembered as director of the
Louisiana Division of Employment Security here several years ago.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Eva Taylor; four brothers, Floyd L.
Taylor of Minden, Archie Taylor of Laurel, Miss., Clyde Taylor of Ruston,
and Andrew F. Taylor of Dodson, and six sisters, Mrs. Daisy Fallon or
Ruston, Mrs. Eva Temple of dodson, Mrs. Winnie Battett of Shreveport, Mrs.
Ethel Scott of San Diego, Calif., Mrs. Minnie Lou Land of Ruston and Mrs.
Vera Logan of San Diego.

Pallbearers were John T. DeLoach, F. L. Morrison, Harry Fuller, Welby
Willis, Troy Kyson, and Lionel Boone.

(Submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA.)